Settle
Settle İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Settle anlamları
- (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
- (noun) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
- (noun) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
- (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
- (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
- (noun) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
- (noun) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
- (noun) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
- (v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
- (noun) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
- (noun) A seat of any kind.
- (noun) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
- (noun) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
- (noun) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
- (noun) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
- (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
- (v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
- (noun) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
- (v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
- (noun) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
- (noun) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
- (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
- (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
- (v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
- (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
Settle tanım:
Kelime: set·tle
Söyleniş: 'se-t&l
İşlev: verb
Türleri: set·tled; set·tling
/'set-li[ng], 'se-t&l-i[ng]/Kökeni: Middle English, to seat, bring to rest, come to rest, from Old English setlan, from setl seat
transitive senses
1 : to place so as to stay
2 a : to establish in residence b : to furnish with inhabitants : COLONIZE
3 a : to cause to pack down b : to clarify by causing dregs or impurities to sink
4 : to make quiet or orderly
5 a : to fix or resolve conclusively settle the question b : to establish or secure permanently settle the order of royal succession c : to conclude (a lawsuit) by agreement between parties usually out of court d : to close (as an account) by payment often of less than is due
6 : to arrange in a desired position
7 : to make or arrange for final disposition of settled his affairs
8 of an animal : IMPREGNATE
intransitive senses
1 : to come to rest
2 a : to sink gradually or to the bottom b : to become clear by the deposit of sediment or scum c : to become compact by sinking
3 a : to become fixed, resolved, or established a cold settled in his chest b : to establish a residence or colony settled in Wisconsin -- often used with down
4 a : to become quiet or orderly b : to take up an ordered or stable life -- often used with down marry and settle down
5 a : to adjust differences or accounts b : to come to a decision -- used with on or upon settled on a new plan c : to conclude a lawsuit by agreement out of court
6 of an animal : CONCEIVE
synonym see DECIDE
- set·tle·able
/'se-t&l-&-b&l, 'set-l&-b&l/ adjective- settle for : to be content with
- settle one's hash : to silence or subdue someone by decisive action
- settle the stomach : to remove or relieve the distress or nausea of indigestion
